I was just watching the breakfast news, and a lot, of course, is currently being made of the eightieth anniversary of D-Day and the liberation of Normandy. It will probably be the last time such commemorations are held involving people who were actually there. It got me thinking: the Paris Olympics are in only a few weeks, so could the anniversary be marked there too, and if so how? After all, the liberation of Paris in August 1944 was a highly significant event in the end of the Second World War, so will the French want to take the opportunity to say something about it? Of course, the Olympics are supposed to be about peace and cooperation, so they may well just ignore the coincidence; yet, with so much currently being said about the anniversary of D-Day, and after so many Parisiens died to free their city, it would be strange if they didn’t allude to it somehow.